Recs similar to Blake Crouch / Marcus Sakey (Brilliance trilogy), and Ted Chiang / Ken Liu

Bucket 1, airport fiction lane: loved Dark Matter, Recursion, and Pines from Crouch (didn’t click with his others), plus Sakey’s Brilliance trilogy. High-concept, fast-paced sci-fi hooks, fast-paced sci-fi. Bucket 2, on the other hand: Chiang / Ken Liu lane. Literary, idea-driven short fiction, philosophical, restrained, often melancholy. Already familiar with Three-Body Problem and Le Guin, [...]